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In giving this work to the public, I have no desire to antagonize any other method of curing the body of its troubles. I feel now, as I have felt ever since I heard of the first mind cures, that there must be some law underlying all such remedies. I believe there is only one mystery in the whole universe that will never be solved by man. All others will be known in time. It is man's mission on earth to discover the solutions. If it were not so, life would be intolerable.<br><br>If we look back over the many wonderful mysteries that have been made plain, we will see that it is not unreasonable to make such a statement. When we stop and think that the force of gravity is drawing all material of weight to the very lowest point toward the center of the earth, we can but draw the conclusion that the time will come when the earth will be absolutely smooth on its surface. Now, when that time does arrive, the prophecy of the Bible will have been fulfilled, that every mountain and hill shall be laid low.

There are many states and conditions of mind, and many stages in human development. Also, there are many special personal needs. Therefore, it is necessary to have many methods of healing and many ways to open the doors to personal emancipation and well being.<br><br>Upon the following pages many methods are presented, each one of which has proven its own efficacy and power in no uncertain manner; indeed, each one of these methods has helped its thousands and its tens of thousands, and will continue to do so.<br><br>The reader is advised, therefore, to study each chapter carefully so as to become thoroughly familiar with the place, the possibility and the application of each method, and selecting, for the present, those methods that make the deepest and most positive appeal.

The Quimby Manuscripts by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby are a truly great read for those who are interested in understanding more about the power of thought in healing. It is a collection of the various works of Quimby, put together by Horatio W. Dresser, a man who claimed that both he and his wife had been cured by the healing powers possessed by Quimby. The book is a concise collection of the various writing of Quimby that had previously been unattainable by the public due to being withheld by a Mrs Mary Eddy. The book is mostly made up of Quimby's work but has been edited and added to by Mr. H. Dresser in an attempt to make them more readable and to avoid repetition. Included in the book are an assortment of letters exchanged between Quimby and his patients and those interested in his works. The book is also of quite a religious flavour, with Quimby addressing how he believed his work to fit in with Christian Science. It is a highly interesting book with many remarkable ideas on the healing of the body through spiritual means and the power of thought. Quimby work is often referred to as the forerunner of the 'New Thought' movement of the 19th century. A truly unmissable read on the subject of esoteric and spiritual healing.

"To Occult Medicine we shall owe discoveries destined to extend the domain of Philosophy," was the prophecy of the renowned French philosopher Descartes. Today, nearly three hundred years later, we find his words approaching fulfilment, for the world is face to face with a new movement in Therapeutics. An insistent, increasing, persevering demand is arising for investigation into the hidden side of the Health law; for a fuller, clearer light upon the Truth of Health itself. The hour of Occult Medicine has come.<br><br>At present, however, the demand for the truth is not universal; instead, the conditions strongly exemplify the eternal struggle between the radical and the conservative. The radicals include a very large number of separate organizations of intellectual people who believe that the laws of Health are as yet but imperfectly known; who are seeking to discover the hidden truths of Health which, from observed facts of healing, they are convinced will make them independent of drugs and surgical operations. To the radicals belong also the students of Sociology, who are demanding that measures for the prevention of disease and for the establishing of a true standard of Health shall obtain, not alone for the classes, but for the masses as well.

Seven years have elapsed since the author of this monograph, in response to requests from many friends of his work, published in a manual entitled Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture, the conclusions derived from a series of experiments with Suggestion as a means of dealing with moral obliquity and of developing and exalting mind power. Since the appearance of the initial volume, he has devoted his attention, exclusively and with little interruption, to a practical application of suggestional methods in the treatment of a most instructive miscellany of physical and mental conditions. The present book is thus no mere lattermath. It is a record of many thousand recent experiences, covering seven years of investigation.<br><br>An ever growing interest on the part of enlightened men and women in psychical therapeutics, supplemented by his own apprehension of the force of mind as a singularly potent curative instrumentality in the fields of medicine and psychiatry, and as a regenerating power in that of criminal anthropology, would seem to justify the author in placing the results of his personal experience, together with his conception of the psychology of suggestion, at the disposal of an intelligent public. This he essays to do, modestly, but with the courage of conviction, in the pages that follow.

He who publishes a book to inform the reader, rather than to flatter a personal conceit, justifies the act as a response to an existing demand. It is to such a feeling that this little manual owes its origin. The interest in the phenomena of mental healing is rapidly increasing in all parts of the country, and thousands of intelligent, thoughtful people, with no special leaning toward what they account a doubtful science, are asking for a comprehensive, explicit statement, in plain language, of the theory and practice of this way of treating disease; teachers and students also are in need of a suitable and convenient text-book. It is to such seekers after light and help that this work is addressed.

In recent years we have been literally deluged with literature on "Suggestion," "Mental Healing," "Hypnotism," "Psychotherapy," psychic fads, and various healing "isms," not to mention "New Thought," "Christian Science," and other systems of religious teaching. It would seem as if doctor, preacher, and layman were now vying with one another in an effort to atone for their past indifference to, and neglect of, the important subjects, Mental Healing and Moral Therapeutics.<br><br>We are now passing through a period of popular reaction against the scientific materialism of the last century. The common people are awaking to the fact that the mental state has much to do with bodily health and disease. The bookmakers, in their efforts to satisfy the universal demand for teaching on various phases of mental healing, have flooded us with literature, much of which is premature, unscientific, incomplete, and highly disastrous in its misleading influence upon the popular mind and morals.<br><br>It is to be deplored that practically every system of modern mental healing has declared as the secret of its success its association with some creed or cult - claiming that physical healing was dependent upon the acceptance of some particular moral teaching or system of religious belief. At the very outset we desire to separate the study of mental healing from any and all particular brands of religion - not from religion as a state of mind, but from any particular system, sect, or form of religious belief.<br><br>We approach the subject of mental healing from the standpoint of the physician - the physiologist.

This little work lays claim to no originality. It is merely a faithful representation, in a condensed form, of the theories, methods, and practice of the German natural healing art, compiled from the works of some of the leading authors on the subject.<br><br>In some cases, the very words of the writers have been retained. Where this has been impossible, owing to the large amount of matter before me, and the small space into which it has had to be curtailed, I have endeavoured to give a thoroughly accurate and comprehensive view of their meaning.<br><br>The writings I have drawn from, have been purposely those of some of the later exponents of the system, rather than of the earlier founders, in order not only to present the accumulated experience of the largest number, but a correct view of the entire Nature-Cure as it is now carried out both in Germany and Austria.

The natural law of mind healing and mind creating of diseases, reveals many startling facts that the sick do not know and do not believe. It is what the sick think they know, and believe, that is the cause of their sickness. A knowledge or belief that will cause misery and suffering is worse than ignorance. There are more than one million people in the United States today, who are healthy, happy and successful without using any medicines or material aids, who rely entirely upon their knowledge of the natural law of mind healing which is fully explained in this book.<br><br>A life insurance of health, happiness and success for two dollars. This is the usual price of one visit by a physician who, on account of his ignorance of the natural law of mind governing physician and patient is as liable to kill as to cure him.

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The Errors of Mind HealingCompared With the Miracles of Christ and His Disciples in the Healing of the Afflicted As Viewed By a Physician

by Reinhold Willman

This book is dedicated to all men and women who desire to assist in the promulgation of the truth concerning the treatment of human ills, as taught in Scriptural History, and as applied by reason of scientific research - as a duty, one to another.

Correct diagnosis is the first essential to rational treatment. Every honest physician admits that the old school methods of diagnosis are, to say the least, unsatisfactory and uncertain, especially in ascertaining the underlying causes of disease.<br><br>Therefore we should welcome any and all methods of diagnosis which throw more light on the causes and the nature of disease conditions in the human organism.<br><br>Two valuable additions to diagnostic science are now offered to us in Spinal Analysis and in the Diagnosis from the Iris of the Eye.<br><br>Spinal analysis furnishes valuable information concerning the connection between disease conditions and misplacements of vertebrae and other bony structures, contractions or abnormal relaxation of connective tissues, and inflammation of nerves and nerve centers.<br><br>Men of high standing in the profession have many times admitted the uncertainty of medical diagnosis, but never has more enlightening information on this subject been furnished than by Dr. Cabot of Harvard University, one of the foremost diagnosticians in this country, and author of a standard work on diagnosis.<br><br>In a recent address before the American Medical Association he stated that postmortem examinations of one thousand cases which he had conducted disclosed the fact that the antemortem diagnoses were correct in only fifty-three percent of these cases.

It is a well-known fact that a considerable majority of the people in this country are addicted more or less to nervousness in one or more of its many forms; and as nervousness is the direct cause of all mental ills, and the indirect cause of a great many physical ills, organic as well as functional, there are few things that would be more important than that of finding a method through which health for die nerves could be secured. How to cure this malady has long been a problem. Medicine as a rule avails but little, and the various forms of other therapeutic systems reach but a limited number. It is therefore that the discovery of a remedy that could reach all cases, or nearly all cases, would easily be considered one of the most remarkable discoveries of the age.<br><br>We may safely state that when people learn to keep the nervous system in perfect order there will be very few cases of insanity, if any, and physical diseases will be reduced at least one-half.

The indulgence of the reader is asked for a brief statement of the facts leading to the writing and publication of this book.<br><br>Only the necessity of giving proof of my knowledge from experience of the practical value of the method of cure set forth in this book forces me to give this personal testimony.<br><br>After ten years of invalidism, during which I had the more or less constant attendance of physicians, I found this way to health.<br><br>Many years before, in desperation from long continued suffering, I had been persuaded to try another form of mind cure, but did not find it suited to my needs, so now felt no desire to seek help from that quarter.<br><br>However, I had always believed that there must be some way in which to avail ourselves of God's promises for the body, if we only knew how.

Among the many evidences of life, are there any so forcible as that of motion? So instinctive in the mind is the connection between life and motion, that, wherever a child sees continued and active motion for the first time, it immediately personifies the thing as a living object, and gives to it a motive to action; saying, "What for does it do" this or that. The story of the watch being taken for a live animal by the savage, is familiar to all.<br><br>Inertness or immobility naturally suggests the idea of death, in an object which we have been accustomed to see alive; and unadaptedness to the reception of life, or the impossibility of vivification in that of others. Hence the term "dead matter," and many similar forcible expressions in common use. Hence also, by contrast, are such epithets as "full of life," applied to objects which manifest great activity and vigor.<br><br>Strange that this, so obvious a sign of life, should have been suggestive of so little. It has become the custom in this wise and artificial age, not to look at the obvious quality and meaning of things, but to obstinately close our eyes to what is plainly visible, and seek for some hidden meaning, unseen by other minds, that thereby we may display the superiority of our penetration or research.

Prejudice, always founded on ignorance, is a handicap to research. We ought to bring our minds to the consideration of a subject as free from bias as we can make them. He who is unwilling to do this, no matter what his standing before the public, is still a stranger to the true scientific spirit. Would we know we must at least be willing to learn.<br><br>There is still a good deal of prejudice against the alleged efficiency of the absent treatment of disease, and a surprising and irrational feature of such prejudice is found in its existence among certain people who cheerfully admit their faith in both telepathy and psychotherapy. The author himself was numbered among this class until convinced through observation that his prejudice had no rational basis. From the evidence supplied by our senses we do not often feel disposed to make an appeal.

Some nine years ago I became interested in the ministrations to nervous sufferers inaugurated by the Rev. Dr. Worcester, generally called the Emmanuel Movement from the name of the parish of which he was the rector. I was convinced that the Emmanuel principles and methods were sound, that the Church could fulfill its true mission to suffering humanity, and that such help should be given in New York as well as in Boston.<br><br>At that time I was rector of an old down-town parish in New York, whose condition was such that in my opinion it could not hope to justify its existence and its cost by work along traditional lines. It seemed to me that God opened an unusual field of useful and proper activity for the energy of the Church and its priests, and I therefore started what we called the Healing Mission.

The question of Spiritual Healing is one which has reappeared in an acute form during the past twenty years, and been the subject of much discussion and of great perplexity. Though little agreement has been reached about the modus operandi of Spiritual Healing in general, or of the nature of Faith, and though apparently even men of eminence have not thought out what they mean by "suggestion," yet no doubt now remains that we are face to face with a mode of curing disease other than that which orthodox medicine had hitherto recognized as valid. The difficulty of appraising this intruder on the sacred domain held in trust by the British Medical Council lies in the greater difficulty which we find lying across the path of all Science, viz. that of expressing Life in terms of Thought and of applying it to our daily needs as our willing servant. Life as the indeterminate factor of experience is reluctant to be locked up in forms and limited by tradition. And the slowness of the acceptance by medicine of hypnotism is a case in point.<br><br>The statement of Spiritual Healing, its history and nature, as given here, is meant to be popular, not technical; general, though (it is hoped) not superficial.

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,<br>The proper study of mankind is man.<br>Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,<br>A being darkly wise, and rudely great;<br>With too much knowledge for the skeptic side,<br>With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,<br>He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;<br>In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;<br>In doubt his mind or body to prefer;<br>Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;<br>Alike in ignorance, his reasoning such,<br>Whether he thinks too little or too much;<br>Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;<br>Still by himself abused or disabused;<br>Created half to rise or half to fall;<br>Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;<br>Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd<br>The glory, jest and riddle of the world!"<br><br>Such was man as viewed through the eyes of Alexander Pope, but few of the present generation read Pope, and yet mankind is much the same now as two hundred years ago, and for the average individual these famous lines are as true now as when they were first penned.<br><br>There have been those in all ages who have devoted their lives to the study of man, and these have at least apprehended the nature of the problems involved in his origin, nature, and destiny, though they may have been unable to solve them.

The Electrical Age through which we have been passing has been pre-eminently productive of good, and has in every sense promoted the general advancement and welfare of the human race.<br><br>We are now just entering the transition period from the Electrical Age to the Age of Vibration. The genius of this age will be controlled and directed vibration.<br><br>Vibration is the primal law of the Universe, nothing being exempt from it.<br><br>The Age of Electricity will reach over into and will blend with the Age of Vibration, because Electricity will probably be one of the chief means of producing controllable vibration, but vibration will be per se the dominant force of the age.<br><br>The wonders produced by Electricity have been nothing short of marvelous. Vibration will so far surpass it in every field as to make it seem ordinary in comparison.

My prefaces are mostly apologias, writing as I do on subjects largely of a character somewhat different from ordinary medical matters. I shall never add to the innumerable books on these subjects, having neither competency to entitle me nor ambition to urge me to do so. Psychotherapeutics, however, comes under a different category, the literature concerning it within the ranks of the profession being exceedingly scanty. And yet the necessity for good books upon it - books far better than any I can hope to write - seems to me very pressing, and perhaps never quite so much so as to-day.<br><br>In saying this I allude to two factors which largely sway men's thoughts at this time.

The study of the influence of mental states upon health has now entered upon the stage of exact investigation by both psychology and medicine. This treatise is an attempt to embody some of the latest results of the psychological study of this important subject and to lay down the fundamental psychological principles governing health and promoting healing.<br><br>Inasmuch as there is a strong tendency on the part of religious bodies to make non-medical healing a part of their work, and because this is done without a through knowledge of psychology or medicine, there is urgent need for the examination of this professed healing. the question whether divine healing and faith healing are essentially the same as mental or psychic healing, or whether the former are fundamentally different from the latter, is a perplexing question to a great many persons who are interested in the subject.<br><br>After a somewhat through psychological discussion of the subject of the influence of the mind upon health, including its larger aspects which relate to man as a purposive being, religious ground is entered upon. A painstaking examination is made of various systems of healing of a religious character from the standpoint of present-day scientific mental healing.

The Fundamental Principle Of Cure; All forms of cure of disease are really phases of Mental Healing. The Vis Medicatrix Naturae. The defensive and reparative forces of the body are mental forces. The life process acting through the cells performs the cure; and this process is purely mental in nature. How the Corporeal Mind energizes the cells and cell-groups under proper mental stimulus; The History Of Mental Therapeutics; An interesting story of the history of Mental Healing. How the ancient priests and magicians employed the principle. How Mental Healing was incorporated with religions. The healing virtues of shrines, relics, holy places, religious ceremonies, etc., and the principle behind them. The history of Christian Science and New Thought; Disguised Mental Healing; How the principle of Mental Healing has been employed under many strange disguises. The psychology of cures by the imagination. The placebos of the physicians, and why they perform cures. How physicians fool themselves and others. The Hack Tuke experiments, and their explanation. Why patent medicines cure. The Key to the Puzzle; Three Methods Of Mental Healing; Healing by Mental Suggestion. Healing by Present Thought Induction. Healing by Distant Thought Induction. The principles involved in each, and the distinction between them. All operate by arousing Into renewed and normal activity and functioning the mind in the cells, organs, and parts of the body of the patient. How these methods may be combined; Mental Suggestion; The basis of Mental Suggestion. What a Suggestion is, and how it acts upon the subconscious mind. The psychology of Suggestion. The mental factors employed in Suggestion. Earnest Attention In Suggestion. Expectant Attention In Suggestion. Pleasurable Mental States In Suggestion. The dynamic force of Attention. The power of Expectancy; Principles Of Suggestion; The leading principles of Suggestion. How the principle of Authority operates in Suggestion. How the principle of Association operates In Suggestion. How the principle of Earnestness operates In Suggestion. How the principle of Repetition operates in Suggestion. How to manifest the mental attitude of Authority in giving suggestive treatments; Therapeutic Suggestion; How to reach the mind of the patient by Suggestion. The best channels of influence. How to diagnose the mental and emotional characteristics of patients. How to apply the appropriate methods to fit each case. How to suggest to the religious type of patients; the metaphysical type; the psychological type; the new thing type; so as to get the best results; What To Suggest To Patients; How to paint the pictures of the desired result. How to arouse the expectant attention of the patient.

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The Art of Natural SleepWith Definite Directions for the Wholesome Cure of Sleeplessness; Illustrated By Cases Treated in Northampton and Elsewhere

by Lyman P. Powell

This little book, like my book on Christian Science which appeared a year ago, is the evolution of a pamphlet.<br><br>The first half of the pamphlet was written in the middle of a sleepless night some years ago.

In laying before the public a new philosophy of physical culture, and a new method of cure, we do not claim that we have comprehended the whole of truth in its relations to the human organism in health and disease: we have simply discovered certain fundamental laws, eternal as the universe, and underlying the possibility of harmonious development and cure, together with the method of their application.<br><br>We have thus opened a wide field for investigation and study. These laws are simple, their application complete. The curative power is inherent in the human organism. To develop and increase this inherent power by a proper action of the organs themselves is the only curative method. In development and cure, each individual must "work out his own salvation." There is no vicarious atonement for physical sins, whether hereditary or otherwise, in special applications either of drugs or exercise. Special training, special dosing, the supposed immunity of the person from the effects of transgression of law, resulting from dependence on physicians and drugs, are ruining the world.

Out of the night that covers me,<br>Dark as the pit from pole to pole,<br>I thank whatever Gods may be<br>For my unconquerable soul.<br><br>It matters not how strait the gate,<br>How charged with punishments the scroll,<br>I am the master of my fate,<br>I am the captain of my soul!